Dr. David Baum (he/him)
Professor of Botany
Phone: (608) 265 – 5385
Email: dbaum@wisc.edu
Twitter: @baobabbaum
Research Interests: Evolutionary and systematic theory; plant evolution and developmental genetics; origin of life; pollination biology
Zhen Peng, PhD.
Research Scientist — Evolution, Ecology & Population Biology, Ph.D.
Email: zhen.peng@wisc.edu
Research Interests: Autocatalysis, Origin of life, Chemical reaction networks, Complex systems, Evolution
Tymofii Sokolskyi (he/him)
Graduate Student – Astrobiology and Evolution
Email: sokolskyi@wisc.edu
Research Interests: Evolution-like dynamics of fatty acid vesicles; Origins of autocatalysis.
Website: https://www.tymsokolskyi.com/
Twitter: @globalglobule
John Anderson (he/they)
Graduate Student – Astrobiology and Evolution
Email: jjanderson27@wisc.edu
Research Interests: Origins of biological individuality and complexity
Emily Spencer (she/they)
Graduate Student – Astrobiology and Evolution
Email: espencer7@wisc.edu
Research Interests: Origins of life; Astrobiology
Ronan Montgomery-Taylor
Post-Baccalaureate Intern – Botany, B.S.
Email: montgomeryta@wisc.edu
Sydney Gargulak
Undergraduate Student – Genetics and Genomics and Conservation Biology
Email: sfgargulak@wisc.edu
Walid Lakdari
Undergraduate Student – Biology with Biocore Certificate
Email: lakdari@wisc.edu
Yichen Zhuang
Undergraduate Student – Pharmacology and Toxicology and Mathematics
Email: yzhuang59@wisc.edu
Research Interests: Biopolymers, Autocatalysis, Chemical origins of life